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A $1.3 trillion undefined, the united states nonprofit region is the world’s 7th greatest economic system. From artwork museums and college hospitals to imagine tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million corporations of brilliant variety proportion the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice firms have joined this international, usually blunting political ambitions to fulfill executive and origin mandates. yet at the same time investment shrinks and govt surveillance rises, many activists usually locate it tricky to visualize movement-building outdoors the nonprofit model.
 
The Revolution should not Funded gathers unique essays through radical activists from around the world who're severely rethinking the long term results of this funding. including educators and nonprofit employees they ultimately identify the “nonprofit business complicated” and ask challenging questions: How did politics form the beginning of the nonprofit version? How does 501(c)(3) prestige let the kingdom to co-opt politi-cal pursuits? Activists or -careerists? How can we fund the circulation open air this advanced? pressing and visionary, The Revolution usually are not Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit business advanced” and its quietly devastating function in dealing with dissent.

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The open society not only allows this process but actually encourages it, by insisting on freedom of expression and protecting dissent. The open society offers a vista of limitless progress .... The Open Society merely provides a framework within which different views about social and political issues can be reconciled; it does not offer a firm view on social goals. If it did, it would not be an open society. w Crucially, the formulaic, naive vision of Soros's Open Society finds its condition of possibility in untied foundation purse strings, as "dissent" flowers into viability on the strength of a generous grant or two.

On the other hand, the state also acknowledged that within the discursive structure of a bourgeois liberal democracy, people had to be convinced that a "free" way of life pivoted on the state's ability to violently enforce it: that is, the state required a pedagogy of "common sense" that could effectively "teach" people to consent to its profoundly expansive and historically unprecedented methodologies of domestic and global warfare/ militarization. The subtle change in the production of a hegemonic state-its absorption of social change movements and simultaneous construction of new strategies for the production of a popular consent-now manifests deeply and widely in the terrains of civil society.

The open society not only allows this process but actually encourages it, by insisting on freedom of expression and protecting dissent. The open society offers a vista of limitless progress .... The Open Society merely provides a framework within which different views about social and political issues can be reconciled; it does not offer a firm view on social goals. If it did, it would not be an open society. w Crucially, the formulaic, naive vision of Soros's Open Society finds its condition of possibility in untied foundation purse strings, as "dissent" flowers into viability on the strength of a generous grant or two.

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